AMD FX-8320E CPU Review: The Other 95W Vishera
Back in September we reviewed the FX-8370E, a new AMD CPU based on the older Vishera/Piledriver architecture but at a lower power – 95W rather than 125W. This was...
94 by Ian Cutress on 1/13/2015MSI Goes USB 3.1 at CES 2015: The MSI Component Suite Tour
Back at Computex we reported that MSI was showing a potential mock-up of USB 3.1 on one of their motherboards. Fast forward a few months and this is slowly...
33 by Ian Cutress on 1/12/2015Zotac ZBOX CI320 nano Review: A Fanless Bay Trail-M mini-PC
Over the last couple of years, mini-PCs in the ultra-compact form factor (UCFF) have emerged as one of the bright spots in the troubled PC market. Zotac is no...
44 by Ganesh T S on 1/6/2015GIGABYTE X99-SOC Champion Motherboard Review: Low Cost X99 Overclocking
When we ask the motherboard manufacturers about overclocking, most of them say that it is an integral part of their hardware line-up as well as a point to distinguish...
10 by Ian Cutress on 1/5/2015Intel Releases Broadwell-U: New SKUs, up to 48 EUs and Iris 6100
As part of the CES cavalcade of announcements, after launching Core-M back in September, Intel is formally releasing their next element of the 14 nanometer story: Broadwell-U. As the...
85 by Ian Cutress on 1/5/2015NVIDIA Tegra X1 Preview & Architecture Analysis
In the past few years, we’ve seen NVIDIA shift their mobile strategy dramatically with time. With Tegra 2 and 3, we saw multiple design wins in the smartphone space...
194 by Joshua Ho & Ryan Smith on 1/5/2015ROCCAT Ryos MK Pro Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Capsule Review
2014 is drawing to a close, and today we have a review of ROCCAT's flagship mechanical keyboard, the Ryos MK Pro. It was launched earlier this year and has...
21 by E. Fylladitakis on 12/31/2014ASRock X99 OC Formula Motherboard Review: What is the Overclocking Formula?
Within each motherboard manufacturer, there is typically a design team for each market segment they are targeting, be that server, channel or gaming. Overclocking is slightly different as most...
17 by Ian Cutress on 12/30/2014QNAP TS-853 Pro 8-bay Intel Bay Trail SMB NAS Review
QNAP has focused on Intel's Bay Trail platform for this generation of NAS units (compared to Synology's efforts with Intel Rangeley). While the choice made sense for the prosumer-targeted...
58 by Ganesh T S on 12/29/2014GIGABYTE GA-J1800N-D2H Review: Dual Core Bay Trail-D at $69
Our recent review of the HP Stream 11 by Brett Howse, featuring a dual core Bay Trail-M, made me wonder about the utility of such a desktop system based...
39 by Ian Cutress on 12/26/2014SilverStone Raven RV05 Case Review
Today we are having a look at the Raven RV05, an atypical Midi-ATX case from SilverStone with a rotated motherboard tray and a unique visual appearance. It is the...
29 by E. Fylladitakis on 12/24/2014HGST Deskstar NAS 6 TB Review
The increasing affordability of SSDs has put a strain on the traditional market for hard drive vendors. However, hard drives continue to remain the storage medium of choice for...
36 by Ganesh T S on 12/23/2014ASUS X99-A Motherboard Review
X99 and Haswell-E, due to the price, the performance and the feature set, ends up being very expensive compared to the mainstream. It is an odd state of affairs...
37 by Ian Cutress on 12/22/2014HP Stream 7 Review: A $119 Windows Tablet
Late last month, we published our yearly holiday guide for people interested in buying tablets. We took a look at what we considered to be the best tablets running...
157 by Brandon Chester on 12/19/2014GIGABYTE X99-Gaming G1 WIFI Motherboard Review
The gaming motherboard range from a manufacturer is one with a lot of focus in terms of design and function due to the increase in gaming related PC sales...
16 by Ian Cutress on 12/18/2014